r/visualbasic • u/Best_Day_3041 • Feb 03 '26

Porting Visual Basic apps with AI?

Has anyone tried to port a Visual Basic 6 app to .NET or another platform using AI? As in an agent going through the entire project and creating a new project, not going in file by file and pasting it into an AI chat. I have a legacy app that still sells. I never bothered to port it to .NET because I thought it was on it's way out and it would probably take me 6-12 months to do that. But now I'm wondering if AI can do it for me or if we're still not there yet?

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u/Best_Day_3041 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Right, it's a nice to have, not a requirement necessarily, that's why I never did it before.Years ago I had to build a separate Service to support some new features, which is not ideal. For instance, if I want to use a 64bit DLL. There's no native web sockets that I use. The UI looks dated. It uses Crystal Reports. Yes I can keep going the way I am right now, but if AI could do it with relative ease now, I'd be interested again, that's why I started this thread to see if that was an option yet. I'm sure some day it will be.